(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Posted by Chris L on
1999/
06/08 16:21
Giles was in the room at the time that was sent and knows That I sent it.
He wasn't offended. Sorry about the spam guys.
Oh yes Funmail didn't get my real name, email address or anything when I
logged on so Nick would have had no chance of tracing it other than to the
stats lab.
Chris
http://www.funmail.co.uk
Funmail addresses...
Posted by Daniel Celano on
1999/
06/08 15:29
I am not so impressed with the "junk" e-mail addresses - they may be
filtered out by
the network manager as spam. That's a side effect of using a large
corperate intranet.
It also makes it a bit too obvious that the e-mails are not work related
etc.
Daniel
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Posted by Andy W. on
1999/
06/08 15:54
Oh yes Funmail didn't get my real name, email address or anything when I
logged on so Nick would have had no chance of tracing it other than to the
stats lab.
Chris
That's all he needs. I'm certain the computer centre keeps logs of who was
logged in on which computer and when. Seeing as each email is stamped with a
date, time, and computer of origin (as demonstrated by Nick), it becomes a
lot easier to work out.
Andy
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Wren A said:
Oh yes Funmail didn't get my real name, email address or anything when I
logged on so Nick would have had no chance of tracing it other than to the
stats lab.
That's all he needs. I'm certain the computer centre keeps logs of who was
logged in on which computer and when. Seeing as each email is stamped with a
date, time, and computer of origin (as demonstrated by Nick), it becomes a
lot easier to work out.
Exactly. I demonstrated that funmail tells me the exact machine it
came from, and date/time, and I have, in the past, given exactly this
sort of information to the CC staff, plus the offer of a pint, and
recieved a student's name in return.
Big Brother is not watching you, unless you pi$$ him off first ;-)
Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet.
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*! http://www.leonet.co.uk/~nick
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Nick Waterman wrote:
Wren A said:
Oh yes Funmail didn't get my real name, email address or anything when I
logged on so Nick would have had no chance of tracing it other than to the
stats lab.
That's all he needs. I'm certain the computer centre keeps logs of who was
logged in on which computer and when. Seeing as each email is stamped with a
date, time, and computer of origin (as demonstrated by Nick), it becomes a
lot easier to work out.
Exactly. I demonstrated that funmail tells me the exact machine it
came from, and date/time, and I have, in the past, given exactly this
sort of information to the CC staff, plus the offer of a pint, and
recieved a student's name in return.
Big Brother is not watching you, unless you pi$$ him off first ;-)
My experience of this is very different. When I tried to find out the
identity of someone who sent such an email, I have been told to piss off
regardless of presence of offers of "pints". The usual response seems to
have been "I can't be bothered to get the data off of yesterday's
backup, and the logs have overflowed since then."
Gordan
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
My experience of this is very different. When I tried to find out the
identity of someone who sent such an email, I have been told to piss off
regardless of presence of offers of "pints". The usual response seems to
have been "I can't be bothered to get the data off of yesterday's
backup, and the logs have overflowed since then."
well, Nick could always put his ISP hat on and complain about some twat
using the college network to send abusive e-mail to his network. Bet that
would have them looking through the logs quick sharpish.
cheers
Asan
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Asan Tu wrote:
My experience of this is very different. When I tried to find out the
identity of someone who sent such an email, I have been told to piss off
regardless of presence of offers of "pints". The usual response seems to
have been "I can't be bothered to get the data off of yesterday's
backup, and the logs have overflowed since then."
well, Nick could always put his ISP hat on and complain about some twat
using the college network to send abusive e-mail to his network. Bet that
would have them looking through the logs quick sharpish.
This means that you can make sure that the offending person is crapped on.
You cannot make sure that they will give you their name.
Gordan
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Nick Waterman wrote:
Wren A said:
Oh yes Funmail didn't get my real name, email address or anything when I
logged on so Nick would have had no chance of tracing it other than to the
stats lab.
That's all he needs. I'm certain the computer centre keeps logs of who was
logged in on which computer and when. Seeing as each email is stamped with a
date, time, and computer of origin (as demonstrated by Nick), it becomes a
lot easier to work out.
Exactly. I demonstrated that funmail tells me the exact machine it
came from, and date/time, and I have, in the past, given exactly this
sort of information to the CC staff, plus the offer of a pint, and
recieved a student's name in return.
Big Brother is not watching you, unless you pi$$ him off first ;-)
My experience of this is very different. When I tried to find out the
identity of someone who sent such an email, I have been told to piss off
regardless of presence of offers of "pints". The usual response seems to
have been "I can't be bothered to get the data off of yesterday's
backup, and the logs have overflowed since then."
Lets compare and contrast....
Gordon - scruffy student.
Nick - sysadmin at ISP.
Hmmm....I wonder why they wouldn't tell you *8).
Chris
christ@ #include <stddisclaimer.h> http://www.instituteofcorrection.org.uk/
"So this is really me? A no-style gimbo with teeth druids could use as a
place of worship" - Duaine Dibley (Red Dwarf - "Back to Reality")
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Posted by David A. on
1999/
06/08 18:17
From: senile_old_fart@
Sent: 08 June 1999 16:21
Subject: (not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Giles was in the room at the time that was sent and knows That I sent it.
He wasn't offended. Sorry about the spam guys.
Oh yes Funmail didn't get my real name, email address or anything when I
logged on so Nick would have had no chance of tracing it other than to the
stats lab.
Chris
If my memory is correct, they would also have found that machine was logged
as being used by Giles's account!!!!
David
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Hmmm...
Does funmail act as a redirector or do you have to access your mail trough
the website..?
*dink*
Eggwhite
http://www.subliminal.demon.co.uk/
(not so) Anonymous abuse of Giles
Posted by David A. on
1999/
06/08 19:01
Does funmail act as a redirector or do you have to access your mail trough
the website..?
Through the website.......
..... but one inbox with upto 20 addresses aliased to it.
